Successful policy implementation: The route to building self-confident government

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-160

  Giacchino, Stephen ^a   Kakabadse, Andrew ^b  

^a Management Efficiency Unit   (Malta)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATIONAL POLITICS; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

MALTA;

EID: 0038674038     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020852303069002002     Document Type: Article

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